Sara Stridsberg
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| File:Sara Stridsberg Oslo bokfestival 2011.jpg
Sara Stridsberg in 2011
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| Born | Sara Brita Stridsberg 29 August 1972 Solna, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Period | 1999– |
| Notable works | Drömfakulteten Darling River Beckomberga. Ode till min familj. |
Sara Brita Stridsberg (born 29 August 1972 in Solna, Stockholm County) is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.
In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty),[1] which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.
Svenska Dagbladet called Stridsberg "one of our foremost nature poets" and considered her among the best in contermporary Swedish literature while noting that Stridsberg's novels are alway discomforting to read.[2]
In 2016, Stridsberg was elected to the 13th chair on the Swedish Academy previously occupied by Gunnel Vallquist.[3]
Contents
Bibliography
- Juristutbildningen ur ett genusperspektiv (non-fiction, 1999)
- Det är bara vi som är ute och åker (non-fiction, 2002)
- Happy Sally (novel, 2004)
- Drömfakulteten (novel, 2006)
- Darling River (novel, 2010)
- Beckomberga: Ode till min familj (novel, 2014)
- American hotel (Short story, 2016)
Plays
- 2006 – Valerie Jean Solanas ska bli president i Amerika
- 2009 – Medealand
- 2012 – Dissekering av ett snöfall
- 2015 – Beckomberga
- 2015 – Konsten att falla
- 2016 – American Hotel
Awards
- 2004 The Sveriges Essäfond Prize
- 2006 Aftonbladet's Literature Prize
- 2007 The Nordic Council's Literature Prize [1]
- 2013 Dobloug Prize
- 2010 Visiting professor Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2015 European Union Prize for Literature (Sweden) for Beckomberga - ode till min familj (The Gravity of Love)[4]
References
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| Preceded by | Swedish Academy, Seat No.13 2016– |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- People from Solna Municipality
- Swedish-language writers
- Swedish women novelists
- English–Swedish translators
- Nordic Council Literature Prize winners
- 20th-century Swedish novelists
- 20th-century Swedish writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 20th-century translators
- 21st-century Swedish novelists
- 21st-century Swedish writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 21st-century translators
- Swedish translators
- Dobloug Prize winners
